It is these files that we need (not the folder). Attach to your next post the five most recent dumps. Notice the Manage Attachments button at the bottom when you go to post the next time. You can Zip up to five files per Zip; if you only have one or two you don’t need to zip them, just attach as is. Please do us a favor and don’t Zip each one individually.

Attached Files:

1) catchme.sys which is a legitimate rootkit detection driver and is part of Combofix.

2) mbr.sys driver which is related to the MBR rootkit detection software

Catchme.sys is a legitimate rootkit detection tool used by several programs, including ComboFix. It is not malware, and will not cause you any harm if you leave it on your PC. Having said that, it's also not especially useful to you if you PC is clean, and will really only sit around taking up space, there's no need to keep it. Feel free to delete it if you wish, but know that it is not malware so you need not be concerned.

However, it is coming up as one of the causes of your system crashes. Post back to your thread with Bobbye and report that Route44 read the five latest minidumps and these two drivers were cited as probable cause. Then we'll take it from there after any advice/insight is given.

Bobbye had asked me to uninstall combofix before In posted in this forum, which I did. Maybe I should ahve mentioned that. I did a search for catchme.sys and mbr.sys and it said it could not find them.

I typed in chkdsk /f /r in start/run (which I got from this thread: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51365.html), and I get the following message "Chkdsk cannot run becasue the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts (Y/N)?

If a minidump file is created when a system crashes, then the files were created before I uninstalled combofix. The BSODs came every time I tried to run combofix. Afterwards, Bobbye told me to uninstall combofix. There's been no BSOD since I uninstalled combofix.

Well, my issue was many viruses taking over the computer causing havoc. Combofix was one of the tools we were trying to use to find/fix them. I was never able to run it. Does it sound like
i just might not be able to run that program on my computer?

I have not tried Prime 95 since I uninstalled it. I don't need it, so I think I'll leave it off from now on.

I never before heard of anyone having issues running Combofix but that really isn't an area that I have a great deal of working knowledge.

I think it would be a good idea from a diagnostic perspective for you to run a harddrive diagnostics. Your harddrive manufacture will provide a free diagnostics utility that you can download and then burn to a CD.

Place the CD in your CD/DVD drive and reboot. The test should load seconds after booting and choose from there. Do both short and long tests.

If it doesn't engage it means you have to place your CD drive as first bootable in the BIOS.